English Translation

bl. -3- The Committee, which had formed for the purpose of summarizing illegal work, first set itself the goal of keeping the Czech national consciousness awake and preparing the people by political education for 'a change in the state-law conditions of the Protectorate. The Committee itself was about to set up various commissions for its work. Individual exponents of the Committee had already had constitutional laws for a new Czechoslovakia drawn up by university professors. Of this work even the highest positions of the Protectorate had knowledge. In addition to the suggested formation of a head for the sanctified illegal work, the creation of a military-manual organization in connection with this head is to be regarded as the most important illegal attempt to prepare for a change in the state legal situation in the Protectorate. This organization was built and managed by senior officers of the former Czech General Staff - i.e. exclusively by the intelligence - and had the purpose of taking over power in the present Protectorate in due time and also to take offensive action against Germany. A group was attached to this organization, which was concerned with the recording of news on the railways and had planned sabotage files for the time being. Although middle and lower post and railway employees were to be used for this purpose, the leadership was also in pronounced intelligence circles. These were officers, professors, lawyers, trade union leaders. For political work in wider sections of the population, an illegal press was published in close cooperation with the organization of the former officers. The articles for the related journals and leaflets were almost consistently written by Czech intellectuals. They were involved: senior ministerial officials, representatives of free